Reply to: R.I.P Richard Attenborough

[stek]

Can recommend his autobiog, decent read I felt.

Twenty years to make Gandhi, he never saw his kids grow up and he much regretted that.

RIP, Darling.

qh

Cheers qh, I will seek that one out, sounds good...

[quackhandle]

Can recommend his autobiog, decent read I felt.

Twenty years to make Gandhi, he never saw his kids grow up and he much regretted that.

RIP, Darling.

qh

[stek]

He was super-creepy as Christie, the serial killer in 10 Rillington Place...

'It's what we Doctors call a compound.......'

Yuk!

[Troll]

Couldn't believe the amount of air time that BBC news gave the 90 year old dies shock horror - really.. the top story???

Couldn't be because he was a rabid left wing, minority supporting views?

[TykeMerc]

Was he not the cowardly stoker who leaves his station in "In Which We Serve" who has his backbone, er, stiffened by Noel Coward playing dear old Uncle Dickie?

Indeed he was:

BFI Screenonline: In Which We Serve (1942)

A curious epic reflecting the odd way in which Uncle Dickie managed to lose his ship.

Indeed, but on the ammunition hoist, so unlikely to be a stoker.

I liked a lot of his stuff, shame he's popped his clogs.

[SimonMac]

Not happy, someone posted on Facebook RIP Santa as my 7 year old daughter was using my iPad so now have to explain the real Santa is not dead!!!!!

[NickFitz]

Pinky in Brighton Rock (school vid) and then Jurassic Park for me. His film credits are impressive though, busy chap.

Yes, excellent indeed. But if you wanted somebody being cowardly in a submarine, he was your man. I doubt anybody will bother making films about submarines in awkward situations now his undeniable talent is lost to the world

[NickFitz]

Supposedly he only got his lordship because someone confused him with his brother and was confused about those nice Nature documentaries..

As that's basically the resolution of the plot of Saki's (H. H. Munro's) story Cousin Teresa, in which the feckless brother of a successful politician scores tremendous popular success with a song he has written for the music halls, and is accidentally knighted as the result of a consequential misunderstanding between civil servants, I think you may have fallen victim to an urban legend

[barrydidit]

If there's one thing he'll always be remembered for, it's being cowardly in a submarine. Nobody - NOBODY - could be cowardly in a submarine the way he could

Of course, he was famous for acting other things too. But to a certain generation that grew up watching black-and-white war films on 405-line VHF tellies of a Sunday afternoon, being cowardly in a submarine will always be his crowning achievement. Even though he only did it in Morning Departure

Pinky in Brighton Rock (school vid) and then Jurassic Park for me. His film credits are impressive though, busy chap.

[barrydidit]

Yes, and there was me busy getting the right geurrilla

[NickFitz]

Showing clips on BBC4 at the moment.

Pinky in Brighton Rock. He played a nice psycho.

10 Rillington Place too.

And the Great Escape, essential Xmas viewing for all those years.

If there's one thing he'll always be remembered for, it's being cowardly in a submarine. Nobody - NOBODY - could be cowardly in a submarine the way he could

Of course, he was famous for acting other things too. But to a certain generation that grew up watching black-and-white war films on 405-line VHF tellies of a Sunday afternoon, being cowardly in a submarine will always be his crowning achievement. Even though he only did it in Morning Departure

[NickFitz]

When I was a student at Leicester Uni, my departments were all housed in the Attenborough Tower. It was named after Richard, David, and John's father, Frederick, who was Principal of the University College of Leicester from 1932 to 1951. The family used to live in the house that stands adjacent to it.

A friend of mine went to the Uni as a mature student about ten years ago. On her first day, a second year student showing them around campus said "This is called the Attenborough Tower, though nobody knows why."

[tractor]

I'm sure those gorillas will send their condolances anyway...

[barrydidit]

Supposedly he only got his lordship because someone confused him with his brother and was confused about those nice Nature documentaries..

I'm sure those gorillas will send their condolances anyway...

[barrydidit]

RIP old chap